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How to pronounce douglass
IPA transcription: ['dʌɡləs]
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Noun
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United States abolitionist who escaped from slavery and became an influential writer and lecturer in the North (1817-1895)
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United States politician who proposed that individual territories be allowed to decide whether they would have slavery; he engaged in a famous series of debates with Abraham Lincoln (1813-1861)
Usage examples
- On Lewis' death, Douglass married his widow.
- Douglass has three tennis courts to accommodate their varsity tennis team.
- Douglass was disappointed that President Lincoln did not publicly endorse suffrage for black freedmen.
- She also created the Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association.
- The Frederick Douglass Apartment towers were converted to senior housing.
- Douglass felt that inoculation caused more deaths than it prevented.
- Douglass was married to singer Christine Yates.
- "Cheap postage, Frederick Douglass observed in The North Star, had an "immense moral bearing".
- Senator Edward Douglass White was instead confirmed to the Court.
- Douglassville is served by the Atlanta Independent School District.